informally needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
informally is the highest-scoring word from informally, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in informally — and it is informally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with normally. For points, the strongest play is formally — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in informally produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finally. For points, the strongest plays are foamily and mollify — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informally turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairly, family, inform, and normal. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including family, firmly and flyman.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairy, final and irony. For points, the strongest plays are filmy, flamy, and foamy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in informally produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, liar and limo. For points, the strongest plays are flay and fray — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informally turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and all. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fly, foy, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and ay. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
informally is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for informally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
informally is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing informally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is informally, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from informally earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in informally produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.